The Trinity Desktop Environment, the KDE 3 fork, has released a new version.
R14.1.1 comes with the ability to drag and tile windows to the display’s borders and corners, adds several improvements to keyboard shortcuts settings, a few new wallpapers, better support in SunOS/Illumos/DilOS and support for libxine2’s logarithmic volume settings. It also has some important fixes for tdepowersave’s display brightness control, arts sound server start up crash, TQt3’s recursive mutexes and for the high CPU usage detected on some RPM distros with R14.1.0. Behind the scenes, an effort to clean up and enhance TQt3 and tqtinterface code has started and will be going on across multiple releases.
You can update to the latest version through your package manager, or install TDE for the first time using the project’s instructions.
In another, better world we’d be using Illumos and TDE instead of Linux and Gnome.
Why you dislike Linux so much to be against using it? No one błock you from using whatever you want, so why would you like to stop others from using Linux?
Why so defensive?
“I like X” does not mean “Y is bad, and people who use Y are wrong.”
Ever tried putting IllumOS on a modern PC?
The hardware support is vanishingly small. There aren’t many native apps, and the Linux emulator works but it’s dated, and the more current one hasn’t been brought across from SmartOS yet.
In design terms it’s a better kernel with a better filesystem, but it is, sadly, a niche OS, and Oracle will make sure it remains one.
I’d *love* to see a modern Oracle OpenSolaris with a current kernel, with R&D investment, but a GNU userland on top, but as Brian Cantrill spelled out, it will never happen.
What’s stopping you?
The comment about Illumos at least makes some sense as it implies an alternate history and because the value of an operating system has a lot to do with its popularity. How does TDE relate to that though? There is very little that forces your choice of DE on you. If you like TDE, I hope you are using it.
Do you use Illumos?